The ocean is a huge body of saltwater that covers about 71 percent of Earth’s surface. The planet has one global ocean, though oceanographers and the countries of the world have traditionally divided it into four distinct regions: the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian…

Gresham College is an institution of higher learning located at Barnard's Inn Hall off Holborn in Central London, England. It does not enroll students or award degrees. It was founded in 1596 under the will of Sir Thomas Gresham, and hosts over 140 free public…

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2003 film directed by Jon Favreau

road accident causing the death of the British princess

West German R&B, pop, and dance music project

The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. An epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north.…

USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere was a battle between an American and British ship during the War of 1812, about 400 miles (640 km) southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. It took place on the 19th of August 1812, one month after the war's first engagement between…

American baseball player

"Vassar chocolates" became emblems of women's education.

Last week, my mother told me, “I remember cling wrap sticking much better than it does today. Why is that?!” I, too, have noticed that these days, cling wrap seems less, well, clingy, s…

novella by Edgar Allan Poe

Andre Agassi eventually told Boris Becker his trick while they were at Oktoberfest and stunned his former rival.

While the 1986 film was a notorious bomb, the impact of the wisecracking Marvel character can still be felt today.

Research done by Krista McLennan of Northampton University indicates that cows do indeed have “best friends.” The Study For the study, cows were penned for 30 minute intervals twice, once with a preferred partner, a “best friend,” and once with a cow that…

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upcoming film directed by Elizabeth Banks

1999 film directed by Rob Minkoff

Canadian poet and writer (1874-1958)